"Next on France Has Talent:Gillenormand is the grandfather of Baron Marius Pontmercy, but he's come a long way from just calling his maid "Nicolette" keeping his grandson from speaking to his father. His talent for dancing was discovered in our Paris auditions and now he's here tonight to perform for us!"

Let us read and let us dance--two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.- Voltaire

Oh, cool! Pity the second half doesn't seem to be online (unless someone has better Google-fu than me and can find it). But it's interesting to see which of those illustrations have circulated a bit in the fandom, and which have remained obscure.

Marianne wrote:Oh, cool! Pity the second half doesn't seem to be online (unless someone has better Google-fu than me and can find it). But it's interesting to see which of those illustrations have circulated a bit in the fandom, and which have remained obscure.

Thanks!http://www.archive.org and GoogleBooks have quite a lot of old illustrated Hugos, although Google, perversely, has some out-of-copyright eds in snippet view only, which is insane if you want the pictures!). (And non-illustrateds: Archive.org actually has the complete works (in French) for free download!)It's also worth checking out Gallica, the BNF site, although, as quite a lot of theirs are digitised from microfilm, the pictures don't always come out well (thinking of the Edition Nationale, especially).

So wait... Is that Marius or Montparnasse? I honestly can't figure it out. It looks like Montparnasse, and I'd very much like it to be, but at the same time Marius would probably be more likely and his general posture/the thing he's doing with his hands would fit pretty well with Marius being his usual dramatic desperate self

And obviously if all the other hilariously awful ones we've had on this thread are anything to go by, the fact that I don't think he looks like a Marius does nothing to prevent the likelihood of it being him anyway (and he did have a moustache in one of the others right?!)... Sigh.